One Southern Indiana, the Chamber for Southern Indiana, is hosting 5 O’Clock Networking this Wednesday May 16 at MAC Construction & Excavating, Inc., 7001 Airport Dr. in Sellersburg.

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In a society where privacy is constantly eroding, recent efforts by some employers to pry into Facebook pages to investigate job applicants should be resisted as an unwarranted intrusion on personal freedom and dignity.

Some employers have recently begun requiring job applicants to provide their Facebook user names and passwords so they can review whatever the applicant has posted privately online. Others — so that the password remains secret — are requiring applicants to access their Facebook pages during the job interview to allow the interviewer to see the content.

While the applicant can say no and withdraw from further consideration, at a time of high unemployment — 9.6 percent in Florida — the request is inherently economically coercive. Applicants will often say yes, reluctantly, hoping to land a job…

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I was walking Miya the Wonder Dog today near The Blue Dog Bakery on Frankfort Ave. Just then, a 10-foot-long tandem recumbent bicycle rolled into the alley we were crossing. What else could I do?  Naturally, I stopped to find out more about the riders of this awesome traveling La-Z-Boy built for two.

In our brief conversation on the alley, Lynn Kaiser and Mike Murray told me they’ve owned this enormous and totally roadworthy recliner for about 15 years and they’ve used it for everything from weekend shopping at local farmers’ markets, to week-long tours through several states.

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As an enterprise owner, you possibly know how much paperwork can accumulate in the office. The difficulty with also many papers being stored in an office is there is an excessive danger paperwork containing sensitive and confidential data will be lost, stolen, after which the data is used for criminal activities. Since of this, your customers, workers, business associates, and clients may become the victims of identity theft and fraud. The end result can be costly lawsuits, lack of prospects and clientele, and a loss of sales. A hurt reputation can severely affect a business. Since of this, it is vital that every enterprise implements document security procedures in their office.

Securing Paperwork: When you keep your paperwork at your office, you should constitute a secure document management system. This consists of classifying, storing, and disposing of confidential paperwork in a method that is secure. No papers ought to be shredded in a method that enables a person to place the papers back together. Office shredders accessible at department shops and business supply shops usually are not excellent enough to thoroughly ruin documents. Also, employees should not capture any documents which would possibly be deemed sensitive outside of the office and the papers should not be thrown in the garbage. Dumpster diving is also frequent of an activity these days. Papers should by no method be place in a recycle bag and placed at the curb for recycling pick up. As properly, secure paper destruction practices ought to state who in an office has the authority to categorize a doc as “ready for shredding.” It is wise to have someone verify the paperwork has been ruined properly.

Paper Shredding Supply: Hiring a paper shredding corporation will considerably scale back the prospect of the loss and theft of sensitive papers. A shredding supply will ensure that what you might be getting rid of maintains compliance with administration regulations. For example, a document destruction firm will present locked bins which are distributed all through the office. The staff will place all the sensitive documents in these bins. The shredding supply will come to the location of the business, pick up the locked bins, and capture them back to their facility to be place through a powerful industrial shredder, or they are going to bring a shredding machine with them on their truck to the business location and shred them on-site.

With on-site shredding, a worker can witness the shredding of their documents. Upon completion, Certificate of Document Destruction will be given to the business. This is legal proof that the paperwork had been permanently ruined and identifies the corporation’s authorizing officer and the distinctive supply request number. The shredded items are like confetti and they are taken to a recycling facility where they will be recycled.

Whether you have a large enterprise or a small enterprise, you will greatly profit from a safe paper shredding policy. A document destruction corporation should be a key component of the policy. Shredding services helps protects essential paperwork and ensures that sensitive and confidential documents are ruined in a safe and environment friendly manner.

A Plus Paper Shredding will be at the Riverport Vendor’s Fair in Louisville from 1-2 pm on Wednesday February 29th to shred your documents! Bring out up to two boxes of documents, files, cd’s, credit card, etc, to shred! Great way to see us in action!

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To serve our Southern Indiana clients even better, A Plus Paper Shredding now has an Indiana address and Phone number. Now we can handle your document destruction even more efficiently. Go Hoosiers!

Address: 3310 E Hwy 62 Jeffersonville, IN 47130

Phone: 812.207.5187

Identity theft: Minimizing risk for employees

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the U.S., and much of it revolves around the workplace. The federal government has taken a stand by passing the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act and the Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act.

But employers must react similarly by erecting legal defenses, including safeguarding personnel files that contain such information as employees’ Social Security numbers, as prescribed by many state statutes.

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On this site, consumers can learn how to avoid identity theft – and learn what to do if their identity is stolen.  Businesses can learn how to help their customers deal with identity theft, as well as how to prevent problems in the first place.  Law enforcement can get resources and learn how to help victims of identity theft.

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Another week, another computer security breach. Hackers broke into a Zappos server in Kentucky Sunday night, giving them access to personal records of 24 million Zappos customers — which means if you’ve ever used the site, you’re probably a victim too.

Actually, if you’ve ever been online, the chances are pretty good that some malevolent person has captured personal information about you and tried to break into your personal computer or credit card account.